Hi folks, Am 13.04.2013 um 11:18 schrieb Peter FELECAN <[email protected]>: > "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <[email protected]> writes: >> 2013/4/12 Peter FELECAN <[email protected]>: >>>> I would like to suggest a change in the check for /usr/share presence, >>>> where the presence of >>>> /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo is acceptable, as this should be taken from the >>>> system. Thoughts? >>> >>> If we don't provide a specific "zoneinfo" file, and why should we ?, >>> then this seems very reasonable. >> >> I have a general feeling that these content checks are too broad and >> produce so many false positives, that they border on unhelpful. Maybe >> we should make them less broad as the first measure. For starters, >> they should only concern binaries. >> >> We could also review how useful they are in the long run. We did have >> a bug caused by a reference to /usr/share, but if this check did not >> help us since, we can remove it without losing much. > > Globally agree with you. IMHO we can exclude from this kind of check the > Info files, the manual pages and the documentation in general. Also, > specific files as "zoneinfo" are good candidates. But removing all these > checks is not a good solution.
I would like to keep the check, there have been occasions where this was extremely useful and helped point out issues which were gone by unnoticed. Taking out the known-to-be-good pathes is IMHO the best way. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
